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By Mark Bahnisch on March 3, 2010
A while back, Kevin Rudd proclaimed the history wars over. He may have been right, at least insofar as the combatants left on the field are looking decidely ghostly; witness the non-event of the launch of Keith Windschuttle’s latest tome. [...]
Posted in Culture, Education, History, Howardia, Politics | Tagged Crikey, Culture Wars, education faculties, history teaching, History wars, Howardia, Julia Gillard, keith windschuttle, Kevin Rudd, national curriculum, national history curriculum, P-10, school education, SOSE, Tony Abbott, Tony Taylor |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 16, 2010
Naomi Parry reviews the reception (and content) of Keith Windschuttle’s new book at New Matilda: Late last year Keith Windschuttle released another book questioning the existence of the stolen generations. But this time, nobody cared. Very few people would be [...]
Posted in History, Indigenous, Politics, Race | Tagged Australian history, Culture Wars, denialism, Fabrication of Aboriginal history, History wars, Indigenous history, John Howard, keith windschuttle, Naomi Parry, New Matilda, robert manne, stolen generations, The Monthly |
By Mark Bahnisch on September 17, 2009
It was the political debate of last week, and we missed it. But that’s ok – so did most of the rest of the population, I would imagine. The columns of The Australian were full of the ‘legacy wars’ – [...]
Posted in Books, Writers & Writing, Economics, History, Howardia, Industrial Relations, Media, Politics | Tagged AWAs, Culture Wars, economic policy, grand narratives, History, History wars, Howardia, Kevin Rudd, legacy wars, Malcolm Turnbull, Mungo McCallum, Paul Keating, Paul Kelly, Peter Costello, Politics, punditariat, Rudd government, The Australian, Thomas Kenneally, WorkChoices |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 11, 2009
Years ago, I used to read Quadrant – incidentally before Robert Manne became editor, if I recall correctly. Back in the day, there was a sense that there was some sort of contest of ideas, and thus there was some [...]
Posted in Blogging, Books, Writers & Writing, Culture, History, Howardia, Media, Politics | Tagged blogosphere, conservativism, cultural politics, Culture Wars, History wars, hoax, Indigenous history, John Howard, John Quiggin, Katherine Wilson, keith windschuttle, left, little magazines, Pavlov's Cat, Quadrant, right, robert manne, sharon gould, wingnuts, writing |
By Kim on October 30, 2008
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/gallipolilanding.jpg" Paul Keating has been speaking out again about Australian history:
Posted in Anzac Day, Australiana, History, Politics | Tagged ANZAC, Australian history, First World War, Gallipoli, Great War, History wars, Paul Keating, PJK |
By Kim on October 15, 2008
I have to confess at the outset that I haven’t read the report – I am really busy with work at the moment and I simply don’t have time (or energy when I do have time), but I wanted to [...]
Posted in Culture, Ethics, History, Indigenous, Media, Politics, Race | Tagged ALP, andrew bartlett, Christopher Pyne, Culture Wars, Glenn Milne, history curriculum, History wars, Indigenous policy, Jenny Macklin, kevin donnelly, Labor, Marni Cordell, national curriculum board, Noel Pearson, Northern Territory, NT intervention, NT intervention report, NT intervention review, Rudd government, stuart macintyre, Warren Mundine, welfare policy |
By Mark Bahnisch on October 13, 2008
Reporting of the initial proposals from the National Curriculum Board for directions for history teaching in schools is concentrating on the suggestion that Australian history be embedded within global contexts. Given that there has already been a predictable furore of [...]
Posted in Education, History, Nationalism, Politics | Tagged Anna Clark, Australian history, Canadian history, Culture Wars, Gerard Henderson, History wars, history's children, kevin donnelly, national curriculum board, national history curriculum, school education, schools policy, Sociology, stuart macintyre, Tony Abbott, world history |
By Kim on September 11, 2008
Now that the Howard gubbermint is ancient history – except in the memoirs of the ghost of Peter Costello who wants you to know that Howard LIED six times and failed to hand him the leadership on a platter (ps. [...]
Posted in Education, History, Howardia, Media, Politics | Tagged ALP, Anna Clark, Culture Wars, education policy, history curriculum, History wars, howard government, John Howard, Julia Gillard, keith windschuttle, kevin donnelly, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Liberal leadership instability, Liberal Party, Manning Clark, national curriculum, News Limited columnists, Peter Costello, Rudd government, stuart macintyre |
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